Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. Mont Saint-Michel is accessible by car (it's roughly a four-hour drive from Paris, though ...

When looking for inspiration for the city of Minas Tirith in the "The Lord of the Rings," Peter Jackson and his crew at WETA used Mont Saint-Michel. When looking for iconic locations for Assassin's ...

PARIS, France — We're taking you to one of the most popular attractions in the Olympic host country. When we started planning our WTHR Olympic pre-trip, we kept seeing this incredible place on a tidal ...

Mont-Saint-Michel, a tiny island in France, is a top fairy-tale destination famed for its Gothic abbey. Once a major pilgrimage site, Mont-Saint-Michel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site of medieval ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It's been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone. The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key ...

MONT-SAINT-MICHEL, France – While much of the world worries about how to stop sea levels from rising, engineers in this corner of France want to spend $260 million to do just the opposite: raise the ...

France's tourist haven Mont Saint Michel is threatened. A new scheme to recreate the rock will have dramatic, albeit short-lived, results Lambs gambling in meadows around Mont Saint Michel have a hard ...

The French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development informed the Secretariat on 18 February 2003, of the protection and enhancement programmes for Mont Saint-Michel and its Bay. The protection ...

It was exactly a millennium ago that the first stone of the abbey church of Mont Saint-Michel, in French Normandy, was laid. The monument that poet Victor Hugo called the “Khéops of the West” has ...